4 states? what exactly is the question asking
Four of the five states to first ratify were small states that stood to benefit from a strong national government that could restrain abuses by their larger neighbors.
The correct answer is A.
Starting a new business, as any investment project, entails a certain level of risk. Even tough an entrepeneur is able to develop a product that he believes would be attractive for consumers, there are many aspects that should be examined before deciding to start a business: market environment (number of competitors, elasticity of the demand, profits obtained in the industry), or inner factors (type of technology needed, how to produce efficiently, human resources policies, etc).
Even tough many things can be studied and plans and strategies need to be defined, there are factors which are unpredictable and can lead a firm to bankruptcy: a global economic crisis starts, there is a rise in input prices, there is a sharp decline of the demand on the product, etc. <u>This uncertainty (risk) makes entrepeneurship highly volatile, very large profits can be earned but also heavy losses can be incurred. </u>
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SALT II was the second series of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The talks opened in Geneva in September 1972 to complete the agreement on strategic defensive weapons. The agreement for the limitation of the construction of nuclear weapons was reached in Vienna on June 18, 1979, but with the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan, on the eve of Christmas 1979, there were harsh reactions on a global scale, especially on the American side.
On 3 January 1980, Carter proposed to the Senate to postpone indefinitely the ratification of the SALT II treaty. Then he took a series of restrictive measures, including the suspension of the planned sales of grain, culminating then in the announcement that the American athletes would not take part in the XXII Olympics, to be held in Moscow on the summer of 1980. With the increasing tensions at the beginning of the eighties, the great powers accused each other of betraying the agreements made, but this did not prevent the negotiations for the reduction of strategic weapons, albeit with continuous interruptions, to resume until reaching the START agreements (START I and START II).
